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Released
1997 · FILM

One Eight Seven

A burned‑out Brooklyn teacher takes a job in a volatile LA high school and must outwit a ruthless tagging gang of students before their violence turns deadly.

When schools become war zones and both sides start taking casualties, what then?

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Written by
Runtime
119 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

Trevor Garfield, a high school teacher from Brooklyn, is repeatedly stabbed by a student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los Angeles and settles in an unruly, predominantly Indigenous Latin American neighborhood. His new school is populated by four dangerously undisciplined Indigenous Latino American students and one European-American student who are members of a tagging gang known as K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers).

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Stephen SemelShot by Ericson CoreScored by David DarlingDesigned by Stephen Storer

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$5.7M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$5.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $2.2M 39% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Peak 1,121 theaters

Also known as

  • 187de
  • 187 - Eine tödliche Zahlde
  • 187es
  • 187 code meurtrefr
  • 187 codice omicidioit

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